This review provides a broad overview of the current state of flood research, current
challenges, and future directions. Beginning with a discussion of flood-generating …

The goal of the study is to strengthen the analytical purchase of the term water governance
and improve the utility of the concept for describing and analyzing actual water distribution …

Addressing the impacts and risks associated with observed and projected climate change
(Chapter 16) is fundamentally and intricately tied to the decision-making options available to …

Managed retreat is a potentially important climate change adaptation option, providing an
alternative to structural protection or accommodation measures to manage natural hazard …

Floodplain ecosystems are biodiversity hotspots and supply multiple ecosystem services. At
the same time they are often prone to human pressures that increasingly impact their …

Adaptation pathway approaches (APAs) have become an increasingly popular means of
facilitating local and regional anticipatory planning under the influence of climate change …

At a global scale, delta morphologies are subject to rapid change as a result of direct and
indirect effects of human activity. This jeopardizes the ecosystem services of deltas …

Countries all over the world face increasing flood risks because of urbanization and the
effects of climate change. In Europe, flooding is the most common of all natural disasters and …

Dutch flood management policy was for a long time dominated by a protection-oriented
approach. However, in the last 10 years a more risk-oriented approach has gained ground …

Stylized sociohydrological models have mainly used social memory aspects such as
community awareness or sensitivity to connect hydrologic change and social response …